Sharp County record., 1887-11-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

month in wages.
JOHN JAMBoR, who wGs convicted and
sentenced to prison for ten years for at
tempting to take thu life of ex-Mayor
NJ. NJ. Secor, of Racine, Wis, with a
dynamite bomb, has fully recovered from
the effects of the morphine which he took
Immediately after his sentence with sui
cidal intent.
COUNT KALNoKY, before the Austrian
budget committee on the Sth, stated that
he had assurances of the peaceful desires
of Russia, and that he felt sure the Bull
garian trouble would be amicably ad-
justea.
The residence of George Rospert, near
Attica, o., was burned with all its con-
tents. on the Sh. M. Rospert, who is
man seventy years of age, rushed INTO the
burning building to save $500 in silver
and gold which he had concealed IN tAe
house. He was so horribly burned that
he died in few hours.
JAMES WELLS who killed John Whlte
at AmbOy, Mich, on the 9th, took his lie
on the night of the 7th in the jail at HIS
dale. Having tied one of the bed sheets
around his neck, he fastened the ends 10
the iron bars of his cell and failing for
ward was stranged TO death. He was BE-
tween sixty and seventy years of age
JNo BUYGER, a prominent farme', who
was q witness against the Rainbarger
brothers, gang Of horSe-thieves living
near Steamboat Rock, Hardin County, Ia,
who were convicted of numbering their
father for his life insurance, was waylaId
near his home on the night Of the lth ana
seriously and probably fatally wounded.
The ceremony of presenting General
Nelson A. Miles with sword in honor OF
his subsection of the Apache Indians,
occurred at Tucson, Ariz., on the Sth, and
was made a noticeable event by c'tIzens OF
tho entire Territory. The sword was pre-
sented on behalf of all the citizens OF tho
Territory
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY on the 9th heard
pleas for clemency to the condemned
Chicago Anarchists.
NINA VAN ZANDT was denied admission
to the Chicago jail on the 9th, to visit her
proxy husband, Anarchist Spies.
THE President has appointed Judge
John w. Emerson, of Ironton, Mo-, to the
position of United States marshal OF the
Eastern district of Missouri
THE Downing party in the Cherokee
contest in the Indian Territory, held a
caucus on the 9th and will endeavor to
oust Chief Bushyhead and thus gain one
vote in the Senate. Everything is quiet
so far.
CASHIER CRECELIUs of the Fifth Nation
al Bank of st. Louis was arrested on the
9th on charge OF making false entries,
reports and statements concerning the
banks condition. He was held in $2o,OJO
bonds by the United States Commissioners.
CAPTAIN WARREN, the owner OF five OF
the captured Canadian sealers, is now IN
Ottawa Ont, and expresses his d9term!'
nation of pressing the matter by appeal
to the Supreme Court of the United States
THE general missionary committee of
the Methodist Church opened its session in
New York on the 9th. Discussion of the
annual appropriation was thu prin cipal
business of the day.
AT a meeting of creditors of tho Ma
tional Rubber Company at Providence, t.
l., on the 9th, a statement was presented
showing assets amounting to 81, ,I9j 24S;
liabilities, $S7j,2S4. A committee was ap-
ront d to report on the subject of reor.
gani2atOn or sale.
A MOVEMENT was started at Chicago on |
the 9th to save Anarchist Iingg from the |
gallows aud confine him in an asylum on |
the ground that he is insane.
LAND COMMISSIONER SPARKS has re-
jected the selections of the Oregon & Cal
iforna railroad for abolt 81 O0) acres Of
land in Oregon within quadrant formed |
by restoration to the public domain of the
forfeited portion of the Oregon Central I
railroad grant
AT Chenango Bridge, N Y, on the Sth,
eleven women offered their votes, which
were accepted and deposited in the boxes.
They voted the straight Prohibition ticket
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued a procla'
nation on the 9th publishing the amended
treaty between the United
States and Hawaii, agreed upon by the
plenipotentiaries of the two governments
December 6, 1884, and since ratified by
both nations.
GENERAL De CoURsEY, formerly COM
mander of the French forces at Tonquin,
is dead.
THE Lord Mayor procession in London,
on the 9th, was of the tamest des cription.
There was heavy rainfall, and the
threatened demonstration Of roughs did
not take place.
THE sheriff of Taylor County, Ia, has
arrested a man named NJ. b. Foster for
,hc IN rider of Emmett Reed. The two
nen had been working on a railroad near
Bedford, Ia, and were on their way
West.
NINE of the bandits captured by the
Military near Matamoras, Mexico, have
been executed. Among the captured
bandits not yet executed are Epeminio
Posules, the noted brigand, who led the
attack ON the Alcisesa ranch.
THE main building of the Soldiers Or
,hans' Home at Davenport, Ia, was
burned at half-past four O'Clock on the
morning of the 9th. The building was |
gutted. Insured for $4,000;
oss, $4,000. The cause of the fire was |
stroke of lightning. The fifty occupants |
Of the building got off unharmed.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, English member |
Of the Fisheries Commission, has accepted |
an invitation to banquet rendered by the
Canadian Club of New York, the date to |
be fixed later 1t will be made an affair |
of much moment.
JUDGE ICHABoD C. NETTLEsHTP, of New.
ark, N. j., died OIL the 95h, aged sixty-lve
ears. While in the United States secret |
service Nettleship was instrumental in
causing many arrests for counterfeiting |